A Formula 1 car pulls about 5-6 G laterally during sharp turns and 4-5G during linear acceleration. The Space Shuttle pulled 3G on launch, Apollo 16 pulled 7G on re-entry. I did the math, just thought I’d throw that in.) (which, by the way does may the Etihad towers jump possible. It’s an acceleration of a little more than 1G.

Every second, your speed increases by 22.4 mph. If you go from 0 to 62 mph in 2.8 seconds (like the Lykan HyperSport in the Furious 7 Movie), you’ve got an acceleration of 22.4 mph each second. The product of your mass times the acceleration due to gravity is your weight.Īcceleration is how fast you change speed. One ‘G’ is equal to the acceleration of any object due to Earth’s gravity. The ‘G’ is quite possibly the most misunderstood unit in racing. Warning – I wrote and researched this while flying halfway across the country, so we’re likely to need a re-write when I get back home Monday and have a little more time to make this prettier. Trying to quantify a crash via one number is a nice attempt at simplifying things, but totally wrong. My twitter was flooded with people asking “90Gs? No one could survive that kind of a hit.” Kyle said he left the track at 176 mph, hit at 90 mph and sustained 90 Gs. And best wishes to Kyle to get well soon. The fact that he remembers so much about the crash is amazing – it will be a great boon to the safety people who probably will use this as a case study in the future.

Listening to Kyle Busch’s press conference Wednesday was alternately fascinating and cringe-worthy.

Highest g force survived